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In Silicon Valley, Armageddon Is Taken Very Seriously

'New Yorker': Richest Americans are prepping for doomsday

(Newser) - Prepping for Armageddon is no longer monopolized by conspiracy theorists on the fringe. As a lengthy New Yorker story explains, it's actually quite common among the richest Americans in Silicon Valley. For the uber-rich, preparing for a breakdown in society, whether caused by an earthquake, a military attack, or...

How Iceland Got Its Clean-Living Teens
How Iceland Got Its
Clean-Living Teens 
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Jan 22, 2017 6:59 AM CST

How Iceland Got Its Clean-Living Teens

A curfew and after-school programs are at heart of program

(Newser) - Teens in Iceland are a pretty clean-living bunch, especially when compared to their peers around the world. That wasn't always the case, but a clear shift has occurred over the last 20 years, explains a feature at Mosaic . Consider three stats: the percentage of 15- and 16-year-olds who have...

Mom in 1990 &#39;Baby Lollipops&#39; Murder Still Claims Innocence
'Single Worst Case' of Child
Murder in Miami Still in Flux
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Jan 21, 2017 4:26 PM CST

'Single Worst Case' of Child Murder in Miami Still in Flux

'I did not kill my baby,' Ana Maria Cardona says of horrific death of 3-year-old son

(Newser) - The body of 3-year-old Lazaro Figueroa, dressed in a lollipop-adorned T-shirt, was found underneath a bush in Miami Beach in November 1990. Injuries on his body showed "Baby Lollipops" had been a victim of extreme domestic violence, and as Jaquira Diaz writes for Rolling Stone , local law enforcement and...

Muslim Marine Trainee Killed Himself ... or Did He?
Muslim Marine Trainee Killed
Himself ... or Did He?
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Jan 21, 2017 2:04 PM CST

Muslim Marine Trainee Killed Himself ... or Did He?

Mystery of Raheel Siddiqui's death gets closer look from 'Esquire'

(Newser) - The Marine Corps Recruit Depot at South Carolina's Parris Island hosts nearly 20,000 recruits each year for 12 weeks of basic training. Alex French looks into the journey of one recruit, Raheel Siddiqui, for Esquire's March issue, exploring the 20-year-old Muslim's likely first moments at the...

How a Major US Airport Has Become an Intel Jewel


How a Major US
Airport Has
Become an
Intel Jewel
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Jan 20, 2017 2:35 AM CST

How a Major US Airport Has Become an Intel Jewel

LAX counterterrorism unit's capabilities could 'rival agencies of small nation-state': 'Atlantic'

(Newser) - A suicide car bombing killing dozens hasn't ever hit LA's airport, and if Anthony McGinty and Michelle Sosa have anything to do with it, it never will. In the Atlantic , Geoff Manaugh tells the story of McGinty (a Marine vet who looks like JK Simmons) and Sosa (a...

Sent to Prison as a Kid, Asking for Mercy as an Adult


Sent to Prison as
a Kid, Asking
for Mercy as
an Adult
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Jan 15, 2017 2:28 PM CST

Sent to Prison as a Kid, Asking for Mercy as an Adult

Edwin Debrow's story highlights complex task of dealing with violent juvenile criminals

(Newser) - In a maximum-security prison in Beeville, Texas, 37-year-old Edwin Debrow often dreams about running in the grass—like he was able to do before 1991, the year he turned 12 and shot and killed a cabbie named Curtis Edwards. Skip Hollandsworth dives into Debrow's story for Texas Monthly , noting...

He Had a Dream. It Involved a Pillow
He Had a Dream.
It Involved a Pillow
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Jan 15, 2017 9:32 AM CST

He Had a Dream. It Involved a Pillow

Now Mike Lindell runs a spectacularly successful business

(Newser) - You may have seen one of the ubiquitous ads : Mike Lindell makes his personal appeal for you to buy the pillow he literally dreamed up because he could never find one he liked. As Bloomberg reports, plenty of people have done just that, making his MyPillow company wildly successful. Consider...

Taking on New England&#39;s &#39;Codfather&#39;
They Call Him the 'Codfather.'
It's Not Exactly a Compliment
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Jan 15, 2017 7:05 AM CST

They Call Him the 'Codfather.' It's Not Exactly a Compliment

Carlos Rafael has become rich using unsavory methods—but is there another way?

(Newser) - Almost as soon as the profanity-hurling fisherman sporting an electronic bracelet sauntered into the fish auction, Brendan Borrell knew he was seeing the Codfather. In his piece for Hakai Magazine , Borrell dives into the murky waters around Carlos Rafael, the 65-year-old he describes as "the most powerful man" in...

An Extreme Sport Few Are Brave Enough to Try
An Extreme Sport
Few Are Brave
Enough to Try
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Jan 13, 2017 3:30 PM CST

An Extreme Sport Few Are Brave Enough to Try

Spencer Seabrooke tells how he got into slacklining and yes, our hearts are racing

(Newser) - When Spencer Seabrooke first witnessed the sport of slacklining, or highlining—traversing a not-taut rope stretched high above the ground, calling for greater balance than a traditional tightrope—at a 2012 film fest, he "walked out of there a different person," he says. Writing for Victory Journal , Laura...

40+ Years in Solitary: 'Ask Me in 20 Years' How Freedom Feels

Albert Woodfox of 'Angola 3' was in isolation more than any other inmate in US history

(Newser) - Albert Woodfox, the last of the famous "Angola Three," was released from prison last February after pleading no contest to manslaughter in the 1972 killing of prison guard Brent Miller. In a piece for the New Yorker , Rachel Aviv offers some insight into the "reserved" and "...

NYC Elites Who Dissed Kushner Can Forget Mending Ties

Their emails went into the trash, says 'New York' profile of Jared Kushner

(Newser) - Donald Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner is expected to end up with an influential White House role, and pundit Mike Allen's new Axios newsletter says lawyers have figured out a way around nepotism rules that will result in a title as "senior adviser." The latest cover of New ...

Inside American&#39;s Mysterious Disappearance at Sea


Inside American's Mysterious
Disappearance at Sea
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Jan 8, 2017 9:17 AM CST

Inside American's Mysterious Disappearance at Sea

Keith Davis' friends believe he didn't go missing from fishing vessel by accident

(Newser) - “Keith was not going to compromise his morals for anyone,” Bubba Cook says. “It’s not beyond my imagination that he was told to look the other way and he refused.” Hakai Magazine goes deep on the story of Keith Davis, an American fisheries observer who...

The VA Pumped Vets With Opioids. Now There's a Bigger Problem

How ex-service members got hooked on painkillers, and how the VA is letting them down: 'WSJ'

(Newser) - Veterans who return from service not only have to deal with everyday re-entry issues (finding jobs, reacclimating to life with family and friends), but also with the injuries and PTSD they may have brought home with them. To cope with the physical and mental pain, many of them are prescribed...

&#39;Turning Tiny&#39;: a Dream or a Facade?
The Tiny House Movement:
a Dream or a Facade?
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Jan 4, 2017 5:25 PM CST

The Tiny House Movement: a Dream or a Facade?

Mark Sundeen delves into the movement for 'Outside' magazine

(Newser) - There's a big revolution afoot that involves the least amount of livable square footage possible. In Outside magazine, Mark Sundeen takes on the tiny-house movement, a push that's evolved from "hipster alternative to mainstream phenomenon faster than an Amish barn raising." Sundeen, who's lived small...

A Spiritual Trek on the &#39;Hippie Trail,&#39; a Missing Hiker
Drugs, Hikes,
and Vanishings
in the Himalayas
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Jan 3, 2017 2:40 PM CST

Drugs, Hikes, and Vanishings in the Himalayas

Justin Shetler disappeared in September on a pilgrimage—and he's apparently not the first

(Newser) - Justin Shetler's last blog post was in August of this year, detailing how he'd just been invited on a Himalayan pilgrimage by a local holy man, or "baba"; his last photo on Instagram (posted around the same time) noted he "should be back to the Internet...

After Weight-Loss Surgery, Happiness Is Not Automatic

Formerly obese patients at first dazzled with results, then not as much: 'NYT'

(Newser) - Gastric-bypass surgery sounds like a sure path to a new life. But for the obese who undergo such radical weight-loss surgery, the ups and downs post-operation can take a precious toll, the New York Times finds after a year of tracking two of the 200,000 Americans who undergo bariatric...

The Biggest Self-Help Charlatan You Never Heard Of
The Biggest
Self-Help Charlatan
You Never Heard Of
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Dec 31, 2016 11:05 AM CST

The Biggest Self-Help Charlatan You Never Heard Of

Napoleon Hill wrote a best-selling book, but he also lived a life of 'countless scams'

(Newser) - Long before Deepak Chopra and Tony Robbins started preaching about how to be the best you possible, Napoleon Hill was peddling his own self-help mantras, penning 1937's Think and Grow Rich and inspiring not just cult-like behavior, but an actual cult. Matt Novak dives into Hill's jaw-dropping backstory...

He Bet His Life and Brought Joy to Millions
He Bet His Life and
Brought Joy to Millions
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Dec 30, 2016 12:03 AM CST

He Bet His Life and Brought Joy to Millions

'Newsweek' tells of the remarkable life of Henry Orenstein

(Newser) - His name is Henry Orenstein, and as a Newsweek profile makes clear, the 93-year-old New Jersey resident really ought to be a household name. For starters, he survived the Holocaust thanks to a risky gamble. For another, he's a prolific toy inventor and the brainchild behind the Transformers franchise....

Why the Kardashians Will Be Around &#39;Always and Forever&#39;
The Bizarre Empire of
Kardashian-Linked Products
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Dec 29, 2016 1:47 PM CST

The Bizarre Empire of Kardashian-Linked Products

The family's got a mind-boggling business setup that goes far beyond its TV shows

(Newser) - If you want to keep up with the Kardashians, there's more to it than obsessively watching E!. Per a piece by Alice Hines on TheOutline.com , you have to embrace the clan's entire empire, which is "bigger and weirder than you think." It encompasses a staggering...

Cub Scouts Boot 8-Year-Old Transgender Boy
Cub Scouts Boot
8-Year-Old Transgender Boy
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Dec 28, 2016 3:38 PM CST

Cub Scouts Boot 8-Year-Old Transgender Boy

'How dare they judge me,' says New Jersey's Joe Maldonado

(Newser) - Joe Maldonado was excited about his new Cub Scout pack from the moment he joined it. But the 8-year-old had only been settled into the Secaucus, NJ, group for about a month when his mom received a phone call that stunned his family: He was being kicked out because he...

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